Woman dies after being shot in vacant South-Central El Paso building
A 44-year-old woman who had been shot multiple times was found by a family member in an abandoned, dilapidated building in South-Central El Paso, officials said.
Adriana Hydee Perez was found with multiple gunshot wounds about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday inside a building in the 100 block of Malaga Place, El Paso Police Department officials said.
Police responded to the scene after a family member of Perez called to report finding her.
Perez, who had been living in the vacant building near Ascarate Park, was taken to University Medical Center of El Paso, where she was pronounced dead, officials said.
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Red police tape cordons off the scene of a murder in El Paso s Lower Valley.
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) The El Paso Police Department s Crimes Against Persons Unit is investigating the murder of a woman in El Paso s Lower Valley.
Police were called out to a report of an assault late Wednesday night on the 100 block of Malaga Pl.
A spokesman for the department said when officers arrived they found a woman who had been shot and was unresponsive.
She was taken to a hospital where she was later pronounced dead.
El Paso police said they currently do not have a suspect, but that there is no current threat to the public.
Police detectives are investigating after a woman was killed in a homicide late Wednesday night in South-Central El Paso.
The 44-year-old woman allegedly was the victim of an assault that had just occurred, said Officer Adrian Cisneros, a police spokesman.
The incident occurred about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday in the 100 block of Malaga Place off Alameda Avenue near Ascarate Park.
The woman was taken by an ambulance to a hospital, where she died, Cisneros said.
Detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit are looking at the case as a murder, Cisneros said.
There had been no known arrests as an investigation continued Thursday morning.